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Windows 8 is Microsoft’s latest operating system in the Windows series. It was designed to compete with mobile operating systems like Android and features a better user interface than Windows 7. One new feature of the OS is storage spaces. It allows users to setup flexible and fast data storage.
Storage spaces is a technology which users can use to combine the data storing capacity of multiple disk drives into a pool and craft many virtual disks....

Microsoft Windows operating systems has a feature called Windows Task Scheduler. This component allows users to schedule tasks such as launching a program or a script at times specified by the users. Users can also schedule the launch of tasks at time intervals that they can specify. Task scheduler is completely different from the scheduler which allows users to allocate CPU resources to processes running in the system.
The Task scheduler also allows...

Microsoft’s Windows is the most widely used operating system. Linux operating systems are popular rivals of MS Windows. The main advantage of Linux systems is that it is less prone to virus attack and is more safe to use. A popular demand for Linux users has been on using Windows applications in Linux. This requires the use of a third party application.
The application known as VMware Player can be used to run Windows applications in Ubuntu Linux....

One of the interesting features of Mac OSX is that it can customize the color of the folder. This option is not available even in the latest version of Windows. However, you can install Folderico 4.0 utility in Windows 7 and add desired colors to folders. This tutorial explains how to install and use this utility for changing the folder and icon colors in Windows 7.
Steps for downloading Folderico
The Folderico 4.0 utility is available for free in...

The greeting cards play a pivotal role in celebrating happy moments like birthdays, anniversaries, festivals etc. If you are tired of decorating the cards with glue sticks and glitters, then you can create video cards using Windows Movie Maker.
It can add several interesting features to your greeting cards like music, captions, themes etc. Apart from that, the applications give you the facility to share the cards with your friends through social networking...

Those who want to explore the web through Xbox 360 console enabled devices can download Internet Explorer app from App Store. This app supports Kinect voice commands by which users can browse their favorite sites with voice. Apart from that, it allows the users to login to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc. directly without using an app.
Requirements for Internet Explorer app Installation
The Xbox 360 console needs to have certain...

What Is an Alternate IP Address?
As the name specifies, an alternate IP address is the address that is specified on a client computer, and works as a substitute to the IP address that the computer receives from the DHCP server. A client computer uses an alternate IP address when it does not receive the dynamic IP address from the DHCP server.
How Alternate IP Address Is Used?
When a Windows 8 computer is configured to obtain IP address automatically...

What Is a Hostname?
In all post-Windows 98 computers, a hostname is the name of the computer that administrators specify either during the installation of the operating system, or after the installation has completed successfully.
Although Windows 98 computers also had computer names, they were called NetBIOS names instead of hostnames. NetBIOS names can only contain 15 characters, whereas hostnames can have up to 63 characters.
When a name is specified...

What Is a Domain?
A domain is a logical area that is created when administrators install a network operating system, such as Windows server 2008, and promote it as a domain controller. When a network operating system is promoted as a domain controller, it enables centralized management for all the client computers in the network that have been added to the domain.
What Is Centralized Management?
Centralized management means that the entire network...

Post-it Notes have literally revolutionized the world in the context of how people keep reminders. With software like Sticky Notes, electronic sticky notes can be created right on the Windows desktop. Just like paper post-its, Sticky Notes allows users to organize, store, search and back-up notes in the computer.
One of the most useful desktop enhancements ever, this widget has gained in popularity allowing the users to set priorities, alarms and...